Lets stop pretending that you have a partnership with your IT department. Case in point: At one Fortune 100 company, a learning leader has to ask someone to unlock a hot, nosy and a cramped server closet every Thursday morning to get outside of the firewall and attend o... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Business Impact , Informal Learning , Innovation , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Trends

A blog. Who me? Who reads these things anyway? I dont want to just be more pollen clogging up the communication airwaves! ASTD has convinced me that I have something to say and that someone will listen. When asking for advice about blogs, I received this advice: 1. Use ... More »

Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Career Development , Informal Learning

In 2008, ASTD partnered with the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) to help organizations better understand how to tap into informal learning. For the purposes of this study, informal learning is defined as a learning activity that is not easily recognizable as... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Innovation , Training and Development - General , Trends

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